Mizhuehue (MH895r)

Mizhuehue (MH895r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mizhuehue (perhaps “An Old Cougar”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing the viewer’s right. He seems to have two noses. He has wrinkles on his face, suggesting that he is an elder (huehue). But he also has ears that suggest he is a cougar (miztli), and a cougar’s face can be mottled.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See examples of huehue and miztli glyphs, below. This compound, Mizhuehue, seems to make an elder into a wild cat.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o. mizveve

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Mizhuehue

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Aging (People, Animals, Things)

Anatomy, human body parts

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

pumas, viejos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

miz(tli), cougar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
huehue, an elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Puma Viejo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=862&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: